worker welfare, the welfare costs. I find that participants would be willing to give up 1.5–1.7 weeks of UI on average to …

-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term unemployed, the hazard rate increases and negative duration dependence … employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …

pre-specified UI duration, have many of the same behavioral consequences as threats of complete benefit termination. Early …Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …

by comparing the post-program duration of employment for the two programs. In addition, we focus in some detail on the … selection process may bias the effect estimate in the non-linear duration model that we use. Simulations help us to determine …

that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some … scholars also reported estimates that the additional time spent in subsidized job search was productive. That is, UI receipt … investigated positive incentives to overcome the work disincentive effects of UI. These were followed by experiments in the 1990s …

The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and … activation, redefining the link between social protection and labour market policies on the one hand and employment on the other … has been a common issue in labour market reforms. The paper shows the development of activation policies in terms of basic …